Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Richard Rogers

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Claude Pepper, Statement in U.S.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Cyril Connolly

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

Andy Taylor

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Stephen Fry

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Naguib Mahfouz

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

Michael Pollan

I believe only in art and failure.

Jane Rule

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

Vidal Sassoon

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Christopher Hitchens

Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.

Stephen Hales

I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.

Tommy Hilfiger